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Why wire a cutting? Once the roots have formed and they have been transplanted and are showing new growth, then and only then should you wire and only for trunk shape. Over exaggerate the bends as when the plant grows it will straighten back out somewhat, make it look silly. Wire can and should be allowed to cut into the bark somewhat on these first wirings, let it scar, the tree is young enough that it will recover but the thickening is drastically accelerated by doing this as the scars and resulting callous will thicken the trunk.

Once the cutting is a year or more old, the wire scars take longer to heal.

Dan Robin

6-Aug-2006	#5
danrobin BANNED Join Date: Jul-2006 Country: USA Posts: 14	Why wire a cutting? Once the roots have formed and they have been transplanted and are showing new growth, then and only then should you wire and only for trunk shape. Over exaggerate the bends as when the plant grows it will straighten back out somewhat, make it look silly. Wire can and should be allowed to cut into the bark somewhat on these first wirings, let it scar, the tree is young enough that it will recover but the thickening is drastically accelerated by doing this as the scars and resulting callous will thicken the trunk. Once the cutting is a year or more old, the wire scars take longer to heal. Dan Robin